Glory days of Chinese steel leave behind abandoned mills and broken lives
by Tom Phillips in Tangshan from on (#11EQX)
The full effect of China's economic decline on the world is unclear, but for the steel city of Tangshan the future already looks decidedly bleak
A billboard on the motorway into China's steel capital evokes the golden era of the country's blistering economic rise. "Gathering great wealth!" it boasts. "Business wins the future!"
But at the Fufeng steel plant on the outskirts of Tangshan, a once booming industrial hub about 200km south-east of Beijing, there is scant sign of those glory days.
